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From one arm of Newt-world to another

That's the trajectory of David Merritt, the head of the Newt Gingrich-founded Center for Health Transformation, who announced in an email that he's signing on with the former House speaker's presidential campaign:

It’s never a good time to leave, but after six and half years at CHT, I recently resigned as CEO. For me both personally and professionally it’s the right time to pursue some new opportunities. The first will be to help Newt on the campaign. Given how closely we’ve worked together over the years, I look forward to helping him on the campaign trail. He has some real momentum right now, so it will be exciting to build upon that in the coming months.

Merritt, who has done policy work for other presidential campaigns, declined to comment further on the role he'd be performing for Gingrich. He's the latest example of a staffer migrating between Gingrich-backed institutions, after much of the team at Gingrich's now-defunct 527, American Solutions, moved over to the campaign.